As the title suggests, the 30 songs included are decidedly sugary — some easily forgettable tunes like Ashlee Simpson’s Invisible (bet you’ll lip-synch better than she does) and Avril Lavigne’s Sk8er Boi. However, most — like U2’s Vertigo, Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun — have held up well beyond Billboard’s flavor-of-the-month.
What’s more, SingStar Pop has you singing over the original recordings and videos of each song, not generic knock-offs by a studio cover band and made manifest by computer-generated nobodies.
And further one-upping Konami’s Revolution titles, SingStar Pop is more versatile as it incorporates the Eye Toy camera into gameplay, allowing for cooperative or competitive duets and, best of all, allowing you to pull the songs off the SingStar Rocks game by simply swapping out for the original game’s disc on the fly, effectively doubling your sing-along options for those karaoke house parties.
Obviously, you need to have both an affinity for embarrassing yourself in public and a fondness for pop music to warrant picking up a copy of SingStar Pop. But, if that’s the case, it doesn’t get much better than this.
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